/r/CreepShots has gone private, and apparently it won't be back. This should be a happy occasion, but honestly, my reaction is much more ambivalent. Rather than the reddit admins taking responsibility for what happens in their community, CreepShots is gone because someone doxxed and blackmailed their top mod.

It's hard not to see the irony in CreepShots being shut down over privacy concerns, and it's encouraging that having an online account that traffics in child exploitation is becoming a bigger and bigger liability. But this isn't time to call it a day and rest on our laurels. Project PANDA isn't about threatening people in real life, it's about appealing to their basic human decency.

Unfortunately, with few exceptions, the admins have held fast to their do-nothing approach towards pRedditors, which means there will be a replacement /r/CreepShots within days, and the cycle of exploitation will go on.

So if you're reading this and thinking that you can "help" by doing stuff like this in the future - don't. We have a lot more to lose in a doxxing war than the creeps do, and it's no substitute for pressing the admins to make structural changes, which is what we have been doing, and will keep doing.

If you want to do your part, keep spreading the word about Project PANDA, and help the coverage that's already out there go viral. Let's give the admins a choice: take a courageous stand against predators in our community, or get used to having people say "oh, you mean that creepy jailbait site?" when you tell them what you do for a living.

Keep up the good work SRSters, and remember, brd loves you.